Journalism

This Is Not About You, BuzzFeed

Social lift is just that—social.

A Fun, Low-Stakes Game Of Mad Libs

Where Have All the [Adjective] [Profession] [Action]?

[Name]. [Name]. [Name]. [Name].

Whatever happened to [job] as a [adjective] profession?

Chicago: Hot or Not?

If you have managed to get through this much of your life without really thinking about whether or not Chicago sucks, it…

Manicured Lawns, Grizzled Veterans

The American people (unless in a quote)
 The narrative (unless referring to a style of writing)
 Probe (as substitute for “investigation”)
 A rare window (unless we’re talking about a real window that is in fact rare)
 Begs the question (unless used properly — and so…

Getting On With Things

The New York Times, whether intentionally or not, is trying to make you think seriously about the nature of life, and…

[laughs]

“Elegantly wasted — Let’s be real: if you saw the pallid human blancmange that is Pete Doherty slinking down the street towards you in jeans and T-shirt, you’d give him the widest of possible berths. But give the man a trilby hat and a blood-spattered volume of symbolist poetry, and lo, he becomes “elegantly…